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tchrist
tchrist
01:45
Pulpo a la gallega exprés (muy fácil y en su punto)
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Cómo hacer pulpo a la gallega paso a paso
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@Robusto Try them!
 
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crl
crl
03:07
she's putting 2 full hand of salt!
me gustaria mas una ensalada de medusas
tchrist
tchrist
heh
EnglishMaster
EnglishMaster
03:50
guys
what is the most easiest way to differentiate when to use present perfect or past simple?
 
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Robusto
Robusto
11:33
@tchrist I need the subtitles.
tchrist
tchrist
waves tentacles
 
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terdon
terdon
12:58
Pfft, poor octopus. Waste of a perfectly good meal. Best thing you can do with octopus is marinate it in vinegar. Grilled is a distant second and a la gallega a very distant third.
Robusto
Robusto
Yeah, not a big fan of Tako Bell.
Get it? Tako is Japanese for octopus.
tako - たこ - 蛸
Wow, tough room, @terdon.
terdon
terdon
ho
hi
:)
Robusto
Robusto
It's not often makes a deft, bilingual pun between English and Japanese (and, presumably, Mexican Spanish as well).
It has everything.
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto I made that joke already, although not here.
Robusto
Robusto
Shoulda copyrighted it.
tchrist
tchrist
13:08
@terdon Wait, what’s wrong with a la gallega?
Robusto
Robusto
I was first to publish.
tchrist
tchrist
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 12 hours ago, by tchrist
tako = pulpo a la gallega
Robusto
Robusto
Well, that's hardly the joke.
Besides, nobody who's anybody can be expected to follow Tavern on the Meta.
tchrist
tchrist
Just a bunch of unschooled weenies doing javascripturbation in public.
terdon
terdon
@tchrist Boring. I just like the Greek style so much that anything else seems like a wasted octopus.
Robusto
Robusto
13:12
Gawd, my company wants everyone to vote for our product in the Webby Awards. Who gives a flying fuck about the fucking Webby awards?
terdon
terdon
What are the fucking webby awards?
Robusto
Robusto
And what does that award measure? Quality, or number of people who can be dragooned into voting?
@terdon Damned if I know.
tchrist
tchrist
@terdon Oh that. Well ok, it does seem a little bland, although you can improve that a little by using better paprika. More intense olive oil. Maybe some ajillo treatment.
terdon
terdon
Oh, "excellence" apparently.
Robusto
Robusto
I thought advertising awards were a sham back when I was winning them in the '80s, and my opinion hasn't changed.
terdon
terdon
13:14
@tchrist I also don't like the texture much. De gustibus...
Robusto
Robusto
I threw all of mine out because . . . they were taking up space in the attic.
tchrist
tchrist
@terdon It can be done terribly.
But correct texture requires pretreatment.
If you ceviche it the proteins cut free.
ponders tako tacos
I dunno. Bocatas de calamares are bad enough.
Robusto
Robusto
I'm not a fan of things that chew like a wad of rubber bands.
terdon
terdon
@Robusto You mean not very well? Rubber bands don't even have teeth.
And you were asking for that one.
Robusto
Robusto
No, I wasn't.
terdon
terdon
13:17
Don't be coy.
tchrist
tchrist
The steaks they make of the giant flying Humboldt squid (diablo rojo) from the Sea of Cortez down towards Baja can be nice — but again, you have to mercilessly beat the damn things first.
Robusto
Robusto
It's accepted to let the agency shift from the actor to the acted upon.
tchrist
tchrist
Otherwise they’ll eat you first.
Robusto
Robusto
"Campbell's, the soup that eats like a meal."
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Using addspeak to justify grammatical choice? Tsk. I expected better of you.
Robusto
Robusto
13:18
I am happy to disappoint you.
terdon
terdon
Heh, you're almost as easy to string along as @Cerberus.
tchrist
tchrist
We miss @RegDwigнt. He could really get Rob going.
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Robusto
Robusto
@terdon Let's not say things we can't take back.
terdon
terdon
:)
Let's see. @Cerberus did you know iphones have better support for Latin than android does?
Robusto
Robusto
Feb 23 '11 at 18:39, by Robusto
Plus let's not say things we can't take back.
terdon
terdon
13:20
That should do it.
Robusto
Robusto
I must have said this before since I say it now.
terdon
terdon
All this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
Robusto
Robusto
Hmmph, my company doesn't use Agile but we still have standups . . . sometimes.
I think if people tried really hard they could invent a process more complicated than what we have, but it would not be a sure thing.
Mitch
Mitch
Mar 22 '13 at 22:15, by Matt Эллен
I recall you said that before
@Robusto The path of least resistance leads to somethety something least something profound something standing on the toes of giants
Robusto
Robusto
R.E.M. - King of Birds (with lyrics)
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Mitch
Mitch
13:33
@Robusto OK one more... standups are fine except when half the team is remote, sitting down, and management so everyone hass to stand while they even more unwittingly than usual run an impromptu management meeting/gab session for an hour.
Also, when half the people have standing desks, they're all used to standing for long periods of time so the incentive to sit down isn't there. Damn you, fitness craze!
tchrist
tchrist
Sigh.
I try to duck out after 20m.
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch Standups are bullshit. They are project managers' way of mistaking activity for progress.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto johndcook.com/blog/2009/05/26/variations-on-a-theme-of-newton
@tchrist I pig out while everybody is away from the kitchen
Robusto
Robusto
Every day I wonder, "Will this be the day I just pack it all in?"
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto Standups do that.
Mitch
Mitch
13:41
@tchrist THey take a lot of ... discipline not to yell out expletives
depends on how many people.
3 people max
Robusto
Robusto
The truth is, nobody practices Agile the way it was meant to be done.
Mitch
Mitch
in the kitchen
with coffee
tchrist
tchrist
with a knife
Robusto
Robusto
No coffee, no cigarettes.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto The way it is practiced or the way meant to be both sound really hard.
Robusto
Robusto
13:43
It's a discipline, like any other.
Mitch
Mitch
@tchrist Gin!
@Robusto like taking naps. you have to get everything just right.
Robusto
Robusto
But that was how Agile scrums should go.
First we have to hear about everyone's new baby, or car, or disease, or what have you. Then we talk about the weather. Then John remembers he has something to tell Sally, out of turn. Etc.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto and if it scares people into not saying anything, then so much the better.
Robusto
Robusto
We need some good old "Shut the fuck up" therapy.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto Wait! I have one! (baby, disease, weather)
Robusto
Robusto
13:45
Cake-"Nugget" from Fashion Nugget
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NSFW
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto oh. well. make rules about that, no baby stuff.
I just read a LinkedIn article on 10 bad things to do in the workplace (things that will get you fired). and all of them were things like don't blow up at people, don't lie, don't backstab, pretty much common sense but useful to say because sometimes you don't realize them of yourself, all like that... except...
don't eat smelly food.
Not that it's totally OK because it can be annoying (actually I don't really think that, I think it's totally OK to have smelly food), but it was in a list of reasons to get fired. WTF! Maybe you should get fired because your face looks like a dump truck. (wait, I bet that happens)
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch Nobody ever got fired for eating smelly food. Not if you work with Chinese or Indian people.
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto "Crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels"? You nasty
@Robusto exactly. The guy who wrote the article must be a dick.
Robusto
Robusto
14:13
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Simple solution: Turn off your grammar and spell checkers. Don't give in to the tyranny of the squiggly line. — Robusto 13 mins ago
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Quoting from the very question you linked to: "This is a good example of why you should turn off the so-called 'grammar checker' on MSWord". There is absolutely no reason or excuse for anyone to use it. It does not know the first thing about English grammar. Conversely, you had a firm grasp of English grammar long before you even knew the words "grammar" or "Microsoft" existed. This tool should be your slave, not the other way round. Why use it against your own best judgment? It just wasted a considerable chunk of your precious lifetime with this question alone. It eats your life away. — RegDwigнt ♦ Jan 9 at 14:55
@tchrist when the going gets robbed, then Rob gets going.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
16:49
I ’ad that Lord Russell in the back o’ the cab the other day. I said to ’im, “All right, then, Bertrand, so wossit all about?” And, you know what, ’e couldn’t tell me.
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
18:48
@Robusto Who's the squiggly red line here, huh?
@RegDwigнt Tom won't even use a spelling checker, probably...
@terdon Shut up!!
You don't even need support for Latin!
Slabs of marble support Latin!
user116848
Hi all
Cerberus
Cerberus
Aloha!
Robusto
Robusto
19:37
@Cerberus Those are strokes, not lines.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Snob.
Robusto
Robusto
You calling me a snob? That is rich.
Cerberus
Cerberus
But true!
 
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Robusto
Robusto
23:34
Where the hell is the eszet on a German keyboard?
Oh, it is next to the 0.
Cerberus
Cerberus
23:47
I don't know, I just type this: ss,,
Anonymous
@Robusto 蛸 is interesting. Its radical is 虫 rather than 魚! There's an alternate way of writing it, 鮹, but it never really caught on
Anonymous
I read why it had 虫 before, but I seem to have forgotten

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